JeffHs
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| posted on 22/12/13 at 11:27 AM |
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Plumbing Query
Tried searching the Regs but can't find an answer, but someone on here will know!
Is it still acceptable to put the waste from a downstairs hand basin into an open gully outside the house? All the houses in our street are connected
to a combined sewer and all of the un-modernised ones are still like that, but over the years with our various extensions all of my drains are now
connected internally to the same stack without the air break outside as they used to be. I want to move the sink in the downstairs cloakroom and there
is a very convenient surface water gully just through the wall where I could drop the waste. As I said it's a combined sewer so everything goes
down the same pipe eventually.
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rdodger
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| posted on 22/12/13 at 11:41 AM |
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A long as the waste water goes down the sewer and doesn't end up in a local stream it's fine.
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theprisioner
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| posted on 22/12/13 at 03:27 PM |
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It is usually discouraged as you can get a smell back in hot weather. Below your gully will be a trap only you are connecting the wrong side of it. It
is discouraged because it propagates bacteria causing diseases which live off fat etc.
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http://austin7special.blogspot.co.uk/
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